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I am trying to create workflows from a single watch folder so that our media team can drop videos and the workflow determines resolution of source and which formats/resolutions to transcode into. I've read through the help several times but I'm not finding any clear examples on how to format variables or how to place multiple variables on a single line.

I've verified that my source media contains Frame Width and Frame Height metadata in the file properties.

My current workflow works properly with no variables (It will transcode 4:3 video into 16:9 and upscale 1280x720 into 1920x1080, I'd like to put a little more intelligence behind the workflow)

I've tried the following under Accept files:

%i_width% = "1920"
%i_width% = 1920
%i_width%="1920"
%i_width%=1920

"%i_width% = "1920"" "%i_height% = "1280"" (including all variations from above)
%i_width% = "1920";%i_height% = "1280" (including all variations from above)
%i_width% = "1920",%i_height% = "1280" (including all variations from above)


TLDR
1. How do I format integer variables
2. How do I place more than one variable in a line


Thank you for your help in advance

Hi VooDooDaddy, thank you for using FFAStrans and welcome to the forum!

It seems you're using variables completely wrong. You cannot evaluate variables like that. Also, you cannot use media variables in the monitors because there are no media variables populated with data yet. The monitors does not do any media analysing because it's not obvious that all workflows deals with media. Although FFAStrans is media centric it can be used for many different file automation tasks

To evaluate variables you must add a "Conditional" node after the monitor: Then you can add the required nodes to process files that pass the conditional test.

Does this help?

-steipal

Thanks for the insight, this explains a lot. I believe I have what I need to finish my workflows. Your assistance and your application are both greatly appreciated!

That's great Good luck!

-steipal